Freaky Coincidences - Part II

Some peoples' lives are inexplicably intertwined, it seems, and there might be more than mere coincidence at work. As a followup to Freaky Coincidences - Part I, here are some more bizarre stories about coincidences.

Return To Childhood

1920s: While in Paris, American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores when she came across one of her childhood favorites, Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him that she fondly remembered the book. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs." It was Anne's very own childhood book!

—While Rome Burns, Alexander Wollcott

Falling Baby

1930s: Joseph Figlock was walking down the street when a Detroit mother's baby feel from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken, and both man and baby were unharmed. Certainly lucky the first time around, but a year later, the same baby feel from the same window onto the same Joseph Figlock, who had been passing under that same window at the time. And, once again, both survived the accident.

—Mysteries of the Unexplained

Switched Hotels

1953: A TV reporter, Irv Kupcinet, was covering Elizabeth II's coronation in London. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy Hotel, he found items that belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, the famed Harlem Globetrotter Harry Hannin and Kupcinet were good friends. But here's the twist in this story. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. The letter mentioned that, while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, Hannin had found a tie in a drawer and it had Kupcinet's name on it!

—Mysteries of the Unexplained

Double Twins

1975: John and Arthur Mowforth were twins, who lived in UK but were separated by about 80 miles. On the evening of May 22, 1975, both suffered from severe chest pains. Both men's families were completely unaware of the other's illness. Both men were rushed to separate hospitals at approximately the same time. And both died of heart attacks shortly after their arrival.

—Chronogenetics: The Inheretance of Biological Time, Luigi Gedda and Gianni Brenci)